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While the debt debacle in Washington preoccupies America, it is causing jitters in power corridors from Beijing to Brussels. The stewards of the world’s largest economies are anxious for a compromise, to keep their own finances from …

After a 24-hour delay and concessions to conservatives, the House on Friday narrowly approved a Republican fiscal plan that the Senate quickly rejected in a standoff over the federal debt ceiling that was keeping the government on a path to …

Given the culture of phone hacking that appears to have taken over Murdoch’s News of the World, many have asked whether his U.S. operations (run by many of the same people) engaged in similar activities. It’s likely that American journalism’s own hacking scandal scared many …

This week in the magazine, James Surowiecki writes about the debt-ceiling crisis. On Tuesday, Surowiecki answered readers’ questions in a live chat. Read a transcript of the discussion below.JAMES SUROWIECKI: Welcome, everyone. I’m James …

David Boucher, of The Economic Word, asks a very good question via email, about the implications of the US losing its triple-A rating:

I was wondering if the state-level impact of a debt downgrade would be different, more severe.

From my understanding, Illinois and California have the two lowest ratings of the US states; if the US were to be downgraded and so would a couple of trouble states, would it have an impact on the ability of the Federal Government to lend a hand to those in trouble? And as a result create a Euro-ish type of debt crisis within the US?

n March 21, 2002, a thirteen-year-old English schoolgirl took the train home. Usually, she took it all the way to Hersham, seventeen miles from London, where she lived, but on that day she got off one stop before, at Walton-on-Thames, to get something to …

When the first news photographs of the Oslo bombings appeared online—before the reports of the Utoya massacre and the revelation that these crimes were the acts not of jihadists but of an extreme right-wing Nordic-nativist-anti-multiculturalist gun fanatic—I did a double-take when I saw, in particular, the image of smoke rising …

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